Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winthrop resigned from his position as vice president when the student assembly elected him its chairman. The Democratic Club has already held two special elections to choose a new vice president. Esty won the first election, held in late October, by a margin of one vote. However, the results of that election were nullified because several non-members had voted. The club then elected Brad F. Artson '81 vice president in Sunday night's election, also by one vote...
...Democratic senatorial candidates in the South were able to lose even without Carter's help. Former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller never invited Carter in, though the President was willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...
...grace note rising above some of the mudslinging in the election of 1978. In California, Texas and Illinois, to name only three, the contenders ravaged each other. But in Massachusetts, Paul Tsongas refrained from assailing Edward Brooke on his personal problems. That rare restraint may have been the margin and the way to the Senate...
...chocolate chip cookies. Vincent D'Olimpio Jr., a Hyannis baker, wrote the names of the gubernatorial candidates in icing on the cookies, allowing customers to buy their preference. Democrat Edward King had 295 cookie-buying supporters compared with Republican Frank Hatch's 287-close to the actual margin for King in the election...
...impasse. Last week an estimated 8,500 East Jerusalem Arabs risked reprisals to vote in municipal elections. Their unexpectedly large participation (only about 3,500 went to the polls in 1973) helped sweep Kollek back into office for a fourth term as mayor by a smashing 5-to-1 margin over his principal opponent...